The web connects billions of people,
Free culture enables global solidarity,
Social networks allow massive sharing, Because I want to be a part of it,
I make software.

My name is Frank Rousseau, I’m 36 years old and I've been a web addict for 21
years. I love using and understanding web applications as much as I enjoy
building them. I created my first website in 1997, it was a poetry registry.
Since then, I've never stopped. Watching, showing, sharing, learning, doing
with people from all over the world, are not things you can give up easily.
It's something I want to experience forever.

Pro

About my professional activity, I was software engineer and business analyst
for startups and big companies. Then I co-founded Cozy Cloud, a startup that
built FOSS personal clouds. I was the CTO of the company and grew the product
and tech teams to 18 people. We were a remote office team and we did free open
source software, so we had to manage the contributions from the community. I
really enjoyed that experience and learned a lot from it. I had to leave the
company for sad reasons, but the journey was unique.

Now, I work for CG studios to facilitate their day-to-day. I provide them with
Free and Open Source solutions to enhance their production management and their
pipeline. My aim is to help them to make better movies.

I read a lot about personal development, but finally, when I need confidence
and courage I think about
Naruto
and Luffy (One
Piece). They never give up and can see when people have something good
inside them.
When it's time to be a little bit cynic, glamourous and honest I turn to Canardo. My last
discovery is the funny and humble One
Punch Man. I like how he stays
simple despite his super powers.

Cozy makes the personal server as simple to use as a smartphone. It turns a
hardware of yours in a personal assistant that collects and connects your
data. With it your digital life becomes smoother and your privacy is
respected.
We had thousands of active users, we raised an overall of $6M, had a team
of twenty and attracted hundreds of contributors.

As a full-time employee, I worked on Artforge, a web application
suite dedicated to CG studios that aims to improve team
collaboration. I built most of the application UIs. Unfortunately, the company
closed and the software is discontinued.